Vickie Remoe
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Digital Marketing Director @VRCMarketingco1 | Multimedia Journalist ✒️ | Ur source for #SierraLeone insights
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Davido came to #SierraLeone and wore OUR raffia and colors on stage. Why? How? Because his stylist Hollyandroo is a Sierra Leonean-American whose brand DNA is rooted in cultural representation and storytelling. Holly who is between NY and ATL also graciously invited Freetown-based designer Mumini to work with him on the look. Beautiful! I love it when our creative leaders at home and in the diaspora collab—nothing but wins. ❤️ We should embrace us👊🏾 The people you look up to, embrace the things and people you look down on. #makesierraleonefamous
Vickie Remoe83,201 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
Reginald Larry-Cole threatened to see me “dead and destroyed” in Sierra Leone and Ghana because I reported that Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had charged him for fraud. Dear Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Metropolitan Police Sierra Leone Police attached is the death threat. Reginald Larry-Cole former director of Raedex Consortium and Buy2LetCars has promised to kill me as he deals with consequences of £88 million investment scam charges.
Vickie Remoe32,270 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Tragic news from Sierra Leone: two girls have lost their lives, seven are currently trapped, half a dozen women are in jail, and two families are grieving. Salamatu Jalloh, 13 and Kadiatu Bangura, 17 have tragically lost their lives due to complications after undergoing bondo initiation—a practice that includes the partial or complete removal of the clitoral hood. No parent sends their child to the bondo cutter out of hatred or a desire for them to die, but the practice of bondo is deadly. How many more lives of girls and women must be shattered due to the failure of Sierra Leonean lawmakers to abolish female genital cutting? This TV news report is brought to you by #VickieRemoePrize grantee Marian Marian Amaria Bangura reporting from Kambia District in Northern Sierra Leone. FGM survivor activists Sarian Karim-Kamara Alimatu Dimonekene MBE Rugiatu Neneh Turay and countless others have told us the damage and lifelong trauma of bondo initiation but their voices continue to fall on deaf ears. Sarian and Neneh through their respective orgs Lose The Knife Keep The Drum, and Amazonian Initiative have shown that it is possible for girls to go through a bloodless rite of passage, no cutting, no trauma, no death. Lawmakers will tell you that there is a law in #SierraLeone that protects children, that you have to be 18. There isn’t. Over 80% of women in SL have gone through Bondo and given these recent events, the practice of cutting girls isn’t going away anytime soon. Watch the 8 mins report here: #endfgm
Vickie Remoe26,885 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
This is the former Vice President of Sierra Leone, ex Ambassador to China and secretary general of the APC. Victor Foh says in 11 years with APC in govt, all he and others did was steal. He also confesses to being a fool. Foh is now a celebrated member of SLPP. #SaloneTwitter
Vickie Remoe28,628 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Clips from the documentary on Mayor Yvonne by the BBC. First clip she thinks she is going to be arrested. She doesn’t. Next clip she goes live to tell the world the streets are red with blood. They weren’t. Next clip is her deleting the video and saying that people were focused on her live cause they wanted to distract away from the fact that one person died. I couldn’t watch the whole 52 mins film so I fast forward. Film is - Mayor on the frontlines
Vickie Remoe17,613 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Sierra Leonean food is the best in the world! No to me say, na National Geographic! National GeographicTravel says in all of West Africa, only one restaurant made it on their list of 21 best restaurants in the world for 2024. That restaurant is in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and it is Cole Street Guest House. I had the pleasure of dining at Cole Street twice in the past month, once for dinner and another for brunch. I had intended to go a third time, but as is often the case with the best of the best, Cole Street was fully booked for private dining. For my review about this best restaurant in the world 👇🏾 #makesierraleonefamous #bestintheworld #natgeo #restaurant #colestreet #africanfood #gastronomy
Vickie Remoe15,145 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Good luck Chief Minister, thank you for your hard work and dedication. All praise and protocols observed. 🙇🏾🙇🏾🙇🏾🙇🏾 Dem Turkish man ya don enjoy boku we money. We na dem custament, e go fine baing make di price come down. Until then, we embrace pragmatic optimism on the light situation cuz ah don tell dem na tong say ah no day spend more pan fuel. Yesterday dem threaten me wit dis video say if ah no buy more petrol tif man go kam. See o CM, see! Please way dem green for di light must talk to the Minister of Energy make e prioritize dong to the podcast studio. CM na to you way day look oh for the light. All praise be. Your humble subject. PS - travel safe
Vickie Remoe12,597 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
.@MEMLAW1 says Mercury International SL will give $25,000 grant 2 entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone. First round $5000 open to women founders only via Freetown Pitch Night. On #thevickietalks Martin says women need access to seed capital now more than ever! 📧 [email protected]
Vickie Remoe14,416 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Konk is the krio word for clitoris and hundreds of Sierra Leonean women online are coming out to thank their parents for not cutting thiers. THAT is what I'm celebrating right now! Sexually active Sierra Leonean women celebrating sexual pleasure. The flip side of growing up in a society where tradition says womanhood is reserved for the cut only, uncircumcised women are deemed as “borka”—unclean, inadequate and not women enough. 83% of girls and women (15 - 45) in Sierra Leone have had part or all of their clitoris removed as a rite of passage to womanhood and membership to the Bondo Society (2019 - Demographic Health Survey). Bondo is not the problem its what happens there that is. Thousands of women who have been to Bondo say the cutting left them mutilated. Girls and women die each year from Bondo complications both in the bush and during childbirth when the clit which supports the opening of the birth canal can't because it has been cut. While government plays politics with girls and women’s lives because you can go meet cutters (soweis) to lobby for their votes; a growing number of Sierra Leonean parents are choosing to safeguard their daughters. And that means protecting them from bondo. I come from a long line of Bondo women. Every woman in my maternal line was circumcised. Our family land in Makeni, had a Bondo Bush in the back. My great grandmother, my grandmother, my mother, all the aunties and cousins, each one cut when they were initiated. My mother saved me. For others it's their dad or grandmother. Until the laws eventually catch up and protect girls from the cutting, it is up to parents, we papa en we mama dem for protect we! So yeah #tenkimama #tenkipapa you no put me Bondo. Proudly Konk Family and our motto is simple—come one, come all. #endfgm 😁
Vickie Remoe10,203 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
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